The much awaited 15th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival began today on its all new virtual platform. The music paved the way for the inaugural season of the literary extravaganza, which was attended by highly acclaimed artists such as BC Manjunath, Darshan Doshi, Nathulal Solanki, Pramath Kiran and Praveen D Rao. The 2022 edition of the prestigious festival began with Mahotsav co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple and festival producer Sanjay K. Roy’s inaugural address.
“I hope the Jaipur Literature Festival will provide solace to many of us, especially book-lovers, who have relished the joy of live events with our favorite authors. This is a unique lineup; the festival co- Director William Dalrymple said, “No other literary festival in the world has year after year writers like this and we are very proud to present them to you at the Clarks Hotel in Jaipur over the next few days.
The ensuing session inspired audiences to a conversation between Nobel Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah and Alexander Pringle on people, communities, and their lives. Pringle began the session by introducing Gurna and citing the Nobel Academy, saying that his work “examines the unshakable and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and refugee fate into the gap between cultures and continents.” In the session, Gurna described his relationship with the language and how he grew up listening to different languages. “English was very much a learned language and not a spoken and learned language, but a kind of read language, in a way that taught people French in a peculiar way. I think about 8 or so. From the age of 9, I felt so comfortable in English, and it was not a strange or peculiar talent,” Gurna said.
In another session, American author and journalist Patrick Raden Keefe discusses his book, Big Pharma Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Suspicious World of the Sackler Dynasty, with Managing Director of Teamwork Arts and Festivals producer Sanjay K Roy. During the session, Raden Keefe said, “Part of what I was trying to do in the book was not only to tell a story about the opioid crisis or the past few decades, but to really take an in-depth look at the history of the big pharma industries.” in the United States and the way that industry, I think, has compromised a lot of public institutions”.
In another session, award-winning British-Turkish novelist and activist Elif Shafaq discusses with Nandini Nair his latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees – a delicate tribute to war, displacement and the agony of immortal hope. Shafaq talked about the duality of settling versus living a more nomadic lifestyle, which has been very important to her as she grew up in different cities and with different cultures.
Irish novelist Colm Tobin talks with novelist and journalist Sandeep Roy about his book, The Magician, a tribute to Thomas Mann. Tobin shared that Mann’s widow Katia Mann wrote a memoir called Unwritten Memories, in which she described her trip to Venice and how her husband couldn’t stop staring at a Polish boy on the beach. Katya was happy but tolerant of her husband’s homosexuality.
As the day’s sessions came to an end, the 15th edition of the prestigious festival was joined by speaker Geeta Sehgal on Nayanthara’s recent non-fiction book Encounter with Kiran, a chronicle of her long correspondence with author Kiran Nagarkar.
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